The Chilling Details of Elisabeth Fritzl Being Held Captive for 24 Years

The Third Prisoner

On April 2, 2004, 14-year-old Gina DeJesus was walking home from school with her friend, Arlene Castro, Ariel Castro’s daughter. DeJesus gave Arlene money to use the pay phone so that she could ask her mother if she could go to DeJesus’s house. Since Arlene’s mother said no, the two girls parted ways and since DeJesus lent her bus money to her friend, she had to walk all the way home. That is when Ariel Castro pulled up next to DeJesus, asking if she had seen his daughter. Saying yes, she agreed to help him find her. But, of course, they didn’t go looking for DeJesus’s friend.